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In forceCorporate returnsLast checked 11 November 2026

Annual corporate certification, foreign institutions (FCACC)

A regulatory return listed by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada.

A yearly certification that the foreign institution has reviewed and updated, as needed, all the corporate information in its organization profile in RRS. Source

Official title: Annual Foreign Corporate Certification

The facts

Who files
Foreign bank branches (full service and lending), foreign representative offices, foreign life and property and casualty insurers and foreign fraternal benefit societies. Source
How often
Yearly, based on the fiscal year end. Source
Deadline
Within 60 days after the fiscal year end. Not subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalty (LEFP) framework. Source
Format
Other. Filed through the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS) as a corporate return; the instructions do not state a file format. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the OSFI: Regulatory Reporting System (RRS); Regulatory Data Hub (RDH). See how firms file with the OSFI.
Status
In forceFiled in the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS). OSFI's Data Collection Modernization initiative will replace RRS with a new platform, the Regulatory Data Hub (RDH); OSFI says the launch is now targeted for spring 2027 and asks filers to keep using RRS until then. In Release 1 (corporate data), OSFI says this scheduled corporate return "will now be filed using the new RDH system." Source
Legal basis
Group
Corporate returns

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

No template: the return is completed in RRS (or, for documents, uploaded as an attachment). Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. OSFI publishes no validation rules for corporate returns. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No publication of these returns was found on OSFI's reporting or open data pages. Source

Official documents (2)

The OSFI's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.